Tom Toles for February 07, 2020

Actually, I’m strongly in favor of dispersing them rather than pulling them all into the same place. Send ’em to their individual homes. Do it by

          VOTING THE BASTARDS OUT !!

“We find ourselves indifferent to the president’s* guilt.”

Bring on the feathers, and rails.

“We find the president’s perversion no different than our own.”

The “Republicans” have defamed the once conservative Republican party — that worked against the racists and misogynists — to now delude the whites-only evangelicals (that have defamed Christianity) into thinking that their shrinking numbers can stand against the world in a tiny walled-in nationalist ’Merica that will keep all the threats to their future out.

With only 2.4% of the world’s population, and losing leadership status, it won’t be long before the bakers move to a less nationalist nation to service international corporations.Burdened with an oversized military that can not maneuver as well as more agile units there have been no significant victories since WWII.

Heavily in debt with a Congress that does not know how to add value, only incur more debt, and with no will to cooperate or even listen to ideas other than their own the parties are essentially useless. The only hope is the voters town-by-town, city-by-city, state-by-state taking back the government from the corrupt.

The GOP has ALWAYS BEEN CORRUPT.

At the RepCong’s Behest – {2 limericks}

Our grievances weren’t redressed.

Instead, the RepCong caressed{!!}

the obnoxious jerk

who’d gone berserk

{everything up he had messed}.

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Had the Senators been at their best,

the prez would be under arrest, -

- but at the RepCong’s behest

The Donald got blessed{!!}.

{We Dems are big-time depressed.}

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{Off-topic:} – This short article concerns the “manufactured nihilism” which discombobulates us: … https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/an-age-of-manufactured-nihilism-a-writer-details-the-disquieting-assault-on-truth-from-trump-bannon-and-putin/ – - – It’s from today’s page of worthy readings at the “Alternet” site: … https://www.alternet.org/

t’s expected the mentally ill will win again…the inmates are running the asylum! ……with Russia as his co- pilot, voting machines are rigged……

“Earth’s Endemic Epidemic”

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The creeping crud is spreading,

Who knows where all it’s heading?

Is it person or fungus?

We just know it’s among us.

Virus or bacteria?

It’s causing hysteria.

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Like paint poured on the North Pole,

It might soon cover the Earth whole.

The world would appear fuzzy,

Unappetizingly skuzzy,

A chewed gum ball from pocket.

The other planets would mock it:

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“Take a hot bath, get a shave!”

Jupiter and Saturn rave.

“It’s a nice solar system,

And you’re covered with life scum.”

So Earth its climate heated,

Its human mange deleted.

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And Lo! The Earth looked less bleak.

It looked more healthy and sleek.

With humans gone, life then went

To forms less intelligent:

For Mind is over-rated

When evil goes unabated.

I heard that some of the White House staff advised the president that the nation now needed a “healer in chief,” that with the impeachment over, he should move on. However, the president, great humanitarian that he is, used a prayer breakfast to announce his plan of retribution and payback. “We may see murder yet!” [From 1776: music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone (1969).]

I wonder how things are on TC2’s Planet???

Troll on Patrol – {limerick}

I ‘druther tune out a troll

who strolls around on patrol

to mess with this site

with sendings so trite

that they’re worthless, on the whole.

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In thrall to the mentally ill/ who’re ignoring the popular will/ we are stuck with a clod/ who thinks he is God/ and corruption mere Truth can not kill.

One half our Senate, and a couple more/have chosen to become “McConnell’s Corps”/ His sycophants, each one a sleazy whore !/ Behold them lying on the Senate floor/ They know a LIE is what they’re voting for…/

Old Glory hangs, today, in shabby tatters/ the nation into shards and fragments shatters/ The tide of Treason at our ramparts batters/ The rampant Right untruths and scandal scatters/ and yet these thrilling words resound…“HERE, Right matters !”

Then there are the Democratic Iowa caucuses. A private corporation (the Democratic Party) working with a Shadow corporation to use a (IMO, intentionally) defective app the writing of which was partially financed by one of the candidates (Buttigieg), with heavy involvement of Clinton operatives. And all the “errors” just magically hurt Sanders. What are the odds? Coming up are primaries using black box voting machines and tabulators.

But they can always point to Trump.

Ban corporations from any involvement in the running of elections.

We have an election in November, time to clean out the hog troughs, let them eat elsewhere.

Henry Wallace said this about American fascists, “They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

This just in: Trump shoots man on 5th Avenue; Senate Republicans all cheer and applaud!

At the risk of seeming to be self-promoting, I call your attention to this graphic:

http://richardsrussell.blogspot.com/2020/02/due-diligence.html

Thanks that y’awl tolerate my too-durn’-many rhymes:

Too Many Rhymes – {2 beats/phrase, then 3/line}

Too many rhymes // the old dude would type

during the times // when he wanted to gripe

about the crimes // and rhetorical tripe

of the Trumpist and of the Right-winger

to whom he would shoot the finger.

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I’d like to nominate Mitt Romney for the “Only one in the room with any balls” award.

Um, it’s the Bidens who are provably corrupt.